Meaning & use
quark
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An elementary particle and a fundamental building block of matter, considered smaller than protons and neutrons.
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Physicists at the collider confirmed the existence of a new type of quark.
Protons are made up of three quarks bound together by the strong force.
A note on using this word
The term was coined by physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who borrowed the word from a line in James Joyce's novel "Finnegans Wake."
Another way to use it
2. noun
A soft, fresh, unripened cheese popular in German and Central European cuisine.
She spread quark on her toast instead of cream cheese.
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